Research on Animistic Thinking Shows That

question 129

Multiple Choice

Research on animistic thinking shows that

• A)young children attribute animism to nearly every object they find.
• B)Piaget was right, that animism pervades the thinking of preschoolers.
• C)animism is less common in preschoolers' minds than Piaget claimed.
• D)preschoolers often perceive animism in stationary objects.

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Definitions:

Proactive Interference

The tendency for older or previously learned material to impede the recall of newer material.

Serial Reproduction

A method of studying memory where information is passed and reproduced through a chain of individuals.

Recency Effect

The phenomenon where people tend to remember the last items in a series best, often observed in studies of memory and information recall.

Primacy Effect

The tendency to remember information presented at the beginning of a list better than information at the middle or end.